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2020 Houston County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Houston County, AL went without power for an average of 1.4 hours, a total of 100K customer-hours (Alabama average 22.1 hours). That ranks 58th worst of 65 Alabama counties and 2502nd of 3,019 nationally.
Compared with AL, the US and 2019
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Alabama customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Houston County, 2020
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | April 13, 2020 00:00 | April 13, 2020 23:45 | 23h 45m | 3,042 | 20K |
| 2 | May 17, 2020 20:00 | May 17, 2020 22:15 | 2h 15m | 2,636 | 4,009 |
| 3 | October 21, 2020 09:45 | October 21, 2020 10:15 | 30m | 2,434 | 619 |
| 4 | February 6, 2020 12:30 | February 7, 2020 02:45 | 14h 15m | 1,974 | 5,875 |
| 5 | October 9, 2020 04:00 | October 9, 2020 08:30 | 4h 30m | 1,690 | 2,880 |
| 6 | July 22, 2020 21:00 | July 23, 2020 06:30 | 9h 30m | 1,201 | 3,967 |
| 7 | November 30, 2020 06:45 | November 30, 2020 12:00 | 5h 15m | 1,006 | 3,604 |
| 8 | August 27, 2020 19:30 | August 27, 2020 21:15 | 1h 45m | 931 | 955 |
| 9 | July 1, 2020 18:00 | July 2, 2020 00:00 | 6h | 925 | 2,186 |
| 10 | June 19, 2020 19:00 | June 19, 2020 21:15 | 2h 15m | 855 | 1,767 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 70 reached 100+ customers, 7 reached 1,000+ customers, 0 reached 10,000+ customers.
Utility reliability filed with the EIA
SAIDI (average outage time per customer) and SAIFI (average interruptions per customer) that utilities serving Houston County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2020, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.
| Utility | EIA year | SAIDI | SAIFI | SAIDI excl. major events | SAIFI excl. major events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wiregrass Electric Coop, Inc | 2020 | 19.8 hrs | 2.47 | 1.7 hrs | 1.13 |
| Alabama Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| West Florida El Coop Assn, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Dothan - (AL) | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 81% of Alabama's customers in 2020; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 72,388 customers (ORNL modeled county customer count), including major storm days. It is comparable across counties but is not the SAIDI a utility files.
- An outage event is a continuous stretch with customers out; counts at 100, 1,000 and 10,000+ use its peak.
- Years loaded: 2015–2025. Houston County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Houston County, AL annual power outage report, 2020, data as of Oct 3, 2026 02:41 UTC, sources: DOE EAGLE-I (https://eagle-i.doe.gov/); EAGLE-I modeled customer counts (MCC) (https://figshare.com/); EIA Form 861 (utility reliability) (https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2020/alabama/houston-county